On November 132006, Wayne Emmerson was re-elected mayor of Whitchurch-Stouffville.

Location

Whitchurch-Stouffville is located approximately 24 kilometres north of the City of Toronto. It is bounded by Davis Drive in the north, Regional Road 30 in the east, and Highway 404 in the west. The southern boundary conforms with a position approximately 200 metres north of 19th Avenue, and is irregular due to the annexation of lands formerly part of Markham Township in 1971.

Transportation

Motor traffic is served primarily by Ontario provincial Highway 48 and Highway 404, which are in turn complimented by a network of regional roads that form a grid pattern across the town.

As the town continues to expands, new facilities are being constructed to accommodate the increasing number of school-aged children in the community. In 2006, construction was begun on a new facility to replace the aging Stouffville District Secondary School, and students entered it's doors in September 2007. Located near the intersection of Weldon and Hoover Park Drive (part of a major suburban expansion project), it accommodates approximately 1,500 students.
Catholic school students graduating grade 8 may be bused to Brother André Catholic High School in Markham, or switch to the public system and attend Stouffville District SS.

Stouffville Montessori School

Stouffville Montessori School is located on a half acre of land on Ninth Line just South of Hoover Park Drive. The Montessori School is owned and operated by Giorgina E.T. Robinson, with 21 years teaching experience with children 2 1/2 to 12 years of age. Giorgina is also a retired Principal and Administrator of an elementary school, AMI trained in Casa and Elementary. The Montessori School offers full and half day programs, with before and after school care available as well. Regular classes run from September to June, while summer classes run in the months of July and August.

There are currently no post-secondary education facilities located in Whitchurch-Stouffville.

Early settlers of this period included Quakers and Mennonites, from the nearby American states of Pennsylvania, Vermont and New York. They also included Hessian soldiers, who had been granted land in Upper Canada by Britain in exchange for their service the American Revolution against the 13 colonies. Several settlers also established mill sites to process the timber that was cleared from the land, which led to the creation of hamlets at travel intersections throughout the township. Stoufferville was one such hamlet, which grew around the saw and grist mills of Mennonite settler Abraham Stouffer. When a post office was established there in 1832, the name was shortened to Stouffville.

In 1877, the Village of Stouffville was separated from the township. Stouffville's growth was aided by the establishment of the Toronto and Nipissing Railway, built in 1871, which connected Stouffville with Toronto. This connection was created in large part to provide a reliable and efficient means of exporting timber harvested and milled there.Forestry led to large-scale deforestation, eroding the thin soils of northern Whitchurch into sand deserts. Reforestation efforts were begun locally, and with the passage of the Reforestation Act (1911), the process of reclaiming these areas began. Vivian forest, a large conservation area in northern Whitchurch-Stouffville that remains in existence today, was established in 1924 for this purpose. There are currently around 5,000 acres (20 km²) of reforested land, managed by York Region, in Whitchurch-Stouffville.

The suburban expansion of Toronto in the mid-20th century led to a reexamination at the provincial level of municipal governance. On January 1, 1971, Whitchurch Township and the Village of Stouffville were merged to create the Town of Whitchurch-Stouffville. In addition to the merger, the southern boundary of the town was moved four farm lots south of the original southern boundary of Main Street. This land was formerly a part of Markham Township, and meant that for the first time, residents along the south side on Main Street were legally a part of the town.

Media

The town is currently served by two local community newspapers: the "Stouffville Free Press" and the "Stouffville Sun-Tribune". A community radio station, CIWS-FM, launched in 2008.